Expertise

• People management experience (at least 5 years)
• Technically and processually guiding IT professionals and challenging them
• Strong abstract thinking ability
• Respecting objectives and deadlines
• Experience with projects and maintenance of JAVA-based systems (at least 5 years)
• Developing in JAVA and coaching on approach
• Knowledge of FHIR
• Understanding digital flows in healthcare
• Knowledge of e-Health systems and flows (ideally)

Tasks

• Still developing in JAVA (hands-on)
• This position provides for reporting on progress in development, operations, and servicedesk (in the initial phase)
• This position will work closely with the operational IT team and also deliver hands-on development work
• Develop technical guidelines for and processually guide IT professionals and challenge them, hands-on as needed
• Summarize progress and bottlenecks of development from a macro-level project approach (Agile/scrum)
• Understand the impact of new functional requirements
• Make technical assessments at macro-level and propose technical choices, in consultation with the developers and the liaison software vendors role (operations; solutions for software vendors)
• Technically assess the impact of developments on software vendors (macro-level), in consultation with internal and external stakeholders
• Write documents for software vendors (specifications; cookbook), in consultation with other team members
• Draft release planning
• Proactively propose technical optimizations of the system to ensure a sustainable solution in the long term
• Manage Dashboard Backlog Operations/ Architecture (JIRA documenting/ prioritizing)
• Discuss prioritization with business responsible so that clear agreements are in place for DEV prioritization
• Lead through coaching
• for DEV (guiding in an Agile context) and address bottlenecks – also summarize within the more macrolevel project approach
• for SWL (steer operations at macro level; introduce service desk at macro level; offer global structure)

Education

• University master (strict criterion)
• Ideally IT degree (Master IT, Civil Engineer, Business Engineer Policy Informatics)

Languages

• Dutch (fluent speaking, fluent writing)
• English (fluent writing)
• French (understanding)

Professional approach

• Diplomatic and coaching with respect for every employee
• Listening to the opinions of others and drawing conclusions from the entirety of information, without continuously pushing your own opinion
• Independently distill problems, develop proposals, present scenarios
• Strong abstract thinking ability
• Leading through coaching (providing sparring/ structure/ identifying bottlenecks together)
• Strong team spirit, cooperation with all levels is a basic principle for you
• Strong communication skills with the aim of maximizing organization-wide collaboration
• Hands-on
• Able to formulate a clear vision
• Flexible

Location

• 2 times per week in Brussels (on fixed days with the entire team; 8 hours of work, half hour break is strictly on that day)